Music

NASHVILLE (BP) – See Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham together in live performances captured on screen in “For the One,” returning for an extra night in theaters across the U.S. Saturday, Nov. 2, after an original run Oct. 27-29.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Gospel music icon CeCe Winans was named Artist of the Year at the 55th annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards Oct. 1. She also received the award for Gospel Worship Album of the Year for her album “More Than This.” The awards are the latest testament to the musical longevity of the 59-year-old Winans, who has been singing gospel music since her teen years.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Skillet frontman John Cooper says the band wants a revolution. And from recent indications on Apple Music, fans agree. The band has a new album called Revolution coming in November but its first single debuted at No. 1 on the Apple iTunes rock and music video charts in August. Ironically, the song is called “Unpopular.”

(RNS) — In January 2023, Chris Brown and a group of fellow songwriters working on a live worship album for Elevation Church, a nondenominational megachurch in Charlotte, N.C., sat down for a writing session.

NASHVILLE (BP) – When he was only 19 years old, Steven Curtis Chapman decided to follow George Jones.

Three members of the Nelons, a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet as well as the chairman of the board overseeing the Georgia Department of Corrections, were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming, according to a statement by a group member who was not aboard the aircraft.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Brandon Lake leads the slate of nominees for the 2024 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards with 16 nominations, including Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and writing credits on four of the 10 songs nominated for Song of the Year. The GMA announced the nominees July 24.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Times of anxiety will come. People will look for foundational truths and those things that have endured, consistently proven to withstand whatever challenges come in the modern day.

TUCSON, Ariz. (BP) – As a first-time lead pastor who formerly served as a worship pastor, Aaron Petre is bringing both experiences together to the benefit of small churches in his city and state.

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – “Crescent City Worship”, a newly-named collection of students, staff and friends of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) and Leavell College, has released its first ever album featuring Dove award-winning vocalist Meredith Andrews.